Sphinx in the City

by Elizabeth Wilson

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Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities-London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka, and S o Paulo-and presents a powerful critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520078640

ISBN13:9780520078642

Release Date:March 1992

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:191 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Urban

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